Maeandrostia kansasensis

Maeandrostia kansasensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MaeandrostiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 306 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPermian307–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303.7 Mya274.4 Mya306.8 Mya266.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Maeandrostia kansasensis on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

4 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

4 formations

Jamal — 33.98°N, 56.79°ESurmaq — 31.04°N, 52.91°EGraford — 33.23°N, 97.83°WNeoschwagerina Beds — 46.37°N, 14.11°E

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The named rock units Maeandrostia kansasensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Maeandrostia kansasensis and its relatives

Permian

Where Maeandrostia kansasensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Maeandrostia kansasensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Maeandrostia kansasensis

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No 3D scan of Maeandrostia kansasensis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMaeandrostia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1908